mikewint
Captain
mhuxt, from the data table you supplied the Tall Boy dropped from 25,000ft strikes at 1260ft/s BUT at an angle of 16 degrees. While the table does not specify this it must be 16 degrees from vertical. Thus we have a right triangle where 1260 is the hypotenuse. This resolves itself into two motions a vertical (y) and a horizontal (x) velocity. Using trig functions: sin(16) = x / 1260 or x = 347ft/s (236 mph) and cos(16) = 1211ft/s (826 mph) which is still supersonic. However,
In John Ellis book "One Day in a very Long War",: Tallboy was designed to be dropped from an optimal altitude of 18,000 ft at a forward speed of 170 mph. Impacting at 750 mph . Not supersonic
In John Ellis book "One Day in a very Long War",: Tallboy was designed to be dropped from an optimal altitude of 18,000 ft at a forward speed of 170 mph. Impacting at 750 mph . Not supersonic
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